How Growers Foiled the Cops in Humboldt County

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When police in black helicopters started descending on Humboldt County, CA to bring 'death from above' to illicit cannabis grows, the locals banded together and fought back. As a co-founder of both the Citizens Observation Group and community-supported KMUD radio, Agnes Patak spent decades monitoring the cops and broadcasting real-time warnings about their raiding parties. She tells us how CAMP (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) made life a living hell for Mom & Pop growers, and why she's so proud to see her community continue to honor the plant, the environment, and our collective struggle for peace and justice. EPISODE SPONSOR: PODTONES This episode of Great Moments in Weed History is brought to you by Podtones—the first 100% pure cannabis rosin vaporizer. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our Great Moments in Weed History podcast feed for 70+ episodes of our classic format, and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video shows and seshes, plus access to cool rewards like a signed book or signature lighter. And it truly helps us make the best show possible.

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean.
0:03.0	Welcome back for another episode of great moments in wheat history.
0:08.3	Today, we're going to be delving into the outlaw history of Northern California cannabis.
0:14.8	Once upon a time, there was something called Camp, the campaign against marijuana planting,
0:20.6	and it was this multi-agency law enforcement
0:24.2	task force. Yeah, that's a lot of copy words and one fucking name, right? They were managed by
0:30.9	the California Department of Justice and composed of local, state, and federal agencies that
0:36.9	organized for the express purpose of eradicating
0:40.6	cannabis cultivation and trafficking in California. Oh my God, what a shit house, huh Bean?
0:47.9	Yeah, this is why there is now currently no cannabis in Northern California because of camp and their successful campaign.
0:57.4	Also, this is probably the worst camp that you can go to. There are no s'mores. There are all
1:03.3	narcs. So fuck this camp. People have heard us talk a lot on this show about the war on drugs.
1:09.9	And we often talk about two groups that were
1:13.5	particularly targeted, which is people of color, people in the inner cities, people involved
1:20.7	in the cannabis distribution end of it. And of course, up in Northern California, in more rural areas, are growers. And so this
1:30.3	is a story about those growers, up in Humbold, up in the Emerald Triangle, organizing to literally
1:36.6	fuck with these cops, to fuck with their little camp party, and to warn all the locals when
1:43.6	these raids were going to happen.
1:45.7	And this is a region that's story for having some of the best cannabis in the world all the way up
1:50.6	until today, right?
1:52.3	And we're talking about an actual war with helicopters raining down from the sky, coming down
1:59.1	there just to destroy all the cannabis, just to chop
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